PHP Serverless News Podcast
Serverless news with a PHP point of view.
With an eye on overall trends.
Hosted by Bob Bloom.


#13 - AWS Serverless MCP Server
June 24, 2025 (05:20)
The new AWS Serverless MCP Server was launched on May 29, 2025....
#12 - The New PHP Installer For PHP Extensions
June 17, 2025 (07:36)
There is a new way of handling PHP extensions in the works. The pressure is on to get a release out sooner than later, because the current way is failing under the newer PHP 8 releases. The new PHP Installer for Extensions ("PIE") is under develo...
#11 - PHP Foundation Officially Supports FrankenPHP
June 10, 2025 (04:36)
The PHP Foundation announced that it is officially supporting FrankenPHP. IMO, this makes FrankenPHP the de facto standard for PHP application servers....
#10 - Internal Scaling
March 26, 2025 (19:36)
In this episode I talk about Spatie's Fork package, the Laravel Framework's recent concurrency Illuminate package, the recently accepted 'Add persistent curl share handles' PHP RFC, and Vercel's new Fluid product....
#9 - Free And Open Source Authentication, Concurrency Injection
October 15, 2024 (15:59)
The Serverless Framework is changing their licensing for version 4. Version 3 is approaching EoL. PHP devs using the Serverless Framework will have to decide what they want to do. I will have more to say about this in my upcoming Commentary podcast....


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Tolga Ercan is an accomplished technology executive with over two decades of experience leading high-performing engineering organizations across SaaS, fintech, and consumer technology sectors. He currently serves as Director of Engineering at Vetster, a veterinary telehealth platform redefining access to pet care through innovative digital solutions. Tolga has built a career scaling engineering teams, driving cloud migration strategies, and delivering resilient, scalable systems. His leadership experience includes senior roles at Instagram, Edmunds, and early-stage startups, where he has consistently championed technical excellence, operational efficiency, and cultural growth. He has also leveraged technologies such as Laravel to build and scale modern, customer-facing applications in startup environments, applying best practices in software architecture and agile development. As a supporter of the open source community, Tolga believes in the importance of open innovation and actively backs initiatives that advance software transparency, interoperability, and access. He is committed to fostering the future of technology through mentorship, organizational leadership, and community engagement.
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